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Could you be a Samaritan - in a school?
The Swindon branch of the Samaritans is appealing to more people to 1. 2. 3.
consider volunteering with its school’s support project. Churchfields Academy
Busy mum Cerian Owens, who Given the worrying level of male
coordinates Samaritans’ schools work, suicide rates in middle-age Cerian Open Evening
said: “I’ve been a volunteer for about is also hoping to launch a specific
eighteen months and I can’t imagine programme aimed at helping boys
not being a Samaritan. I had my become more comfortable about The Principal and staff
own troubles as a teenager so this is expressing their emotions. For this would like to welcome
a great way for me to give back;even she requires more volunteers. She
with young children I don’t find the said: “It would be great to have two you and your family
hours difficult.” outreach groups to go into schools, to join us on
The schools project is an important one to do the usual presentation and
way of raising awareness about the ser- the other to help boys understand that 19 September
vice among the younger generation. expressing their emotions is a strength 5 - 8pm
Cerian added: “We talk to groups of rather than a weakness.”
14 to 18 year olds about emotional To find out more about what is in- There will be a prize
health, self-harm and what they can volved, there is an information event
expect from the Samaritans such as on Saturday 7 September, 10.30am to draw at 6pm to win a
confidentiality, the 24/7/365 avail- 12pm, at Swindon Samaritans HQ, 6 signed STFC
ability and the fact that we don’t judge Curtis Street, SN1 5JU
and don’t give advice, we just listen.” www.samaritans.org/swindon football shirt
www.churchfields.org
Becoming more globally aware at academy

Year 7 students at Lydiard Park Academy spent a Global Enrichment Day
in early July discovering what it is like to live in other countries. Ofsted
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Robert Buckland MP and Year 7s dressed in traditional Nicaraguan dance
costume with members of Nicaraguan twinning group Swindon Ocotal Link
Dorothy Brown and Mary Creffield
Youngsters had to pull water in a clothing for High Street chains.
bucket to the first floor then carry it The academy, which has a long
to the other end of the school where history of links with South Africa
it was used for washing up to dem- and more recently The Gambia, has
onstrate the difficulty of accessing been involved over the years with
water in poorer countries. There campaigns to provide education to
were workshops to make shadow every child on the planet.
puppets, martial arts, African sing- South Swindon MP Robert Buck-
ing, a Turkish cookery class, Kabadi land, who has been lobbied by stu-
sports from Pakistan and dancing dents in the past, said he continues
from Nicaragua. to be impressed by the academy’s It’s not too late!
In Maths students used real world commitment to global understand- Call our Advice and Guidance Team tOday
data to compare incomes and the cost ing. “It is essential that we are all aware
of living between the industrialised of human rights and trade issues. The - Lots of exciting full time courses on offer.
world and less well off countries. young people will be moving onto

They also discussed what the United higher education and work in just a For more information about courses at Swindon College
Nations convention on the rights of few years and Lydiard Park Academy Visit our website www.swindon-college.ac.uk or call Freephone
the child means around the world, is equipping them to understand the 0800 731 2250 or email [email protected]
the impact of unfair trade practice issues that affect us all in an inter-
S w i n d o n C o l l e g e , N o r t h S t a r A v e n u e , S w i n d o n , W i l t s h i r e , S N 2 1 D Y
and child exploitation in producing connected world.”
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